BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Father Aldo J. Tos, who served as pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village for 18 years until he retired in 2003, died Sept 21. He was 86. As pastor of St. Joseph’s, he presided more than 10 years ago over the restoration of the 1833 Greek Revival-style church building read more here »

BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Rose Marie Barbieri, a lifelong resident of Greenwich Village who was born in the neighborhood, as was her father before her, died Mon., Nov. 24, at her home in the Village. She was 85. Her son, Glenn, told The Villager that she had been vigorous until she became ill seven weeks read more here »

BY LESLIE DANIELS | Valery Daniels, a Lower East Side artist and sculptor, died Nov. 16 at age 59, encircled by family and friends. She succumbed to a rare cancer after three brave, hard years. Daniels completed her bachelor’s of fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Tufts, and her read more here »

BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Daniel B. Meltzer, playwright, short-story writer and author of scores of columns and essays, many of which were published in The Villager, died Nov. 6 in the Visiting Nurse Service Special Care hospice at Bellevue Hospital, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 74. His published work includes the read more here »

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | An oversize presence in the world of New York journalism for six decades, Jerry Tallmer, died on Sun., Nov. 9, at the Dewitt Hospice on the Upper East Side. He would have turned 94 in December. Tallmer was a founding editor of the Village Voice in 1955, serving as its read more here »

BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Elizabeth Shuldiner, a Village resident and homeowner for more than 60 years and founder of the W. 12th St. Block Association, died at home on Thurs., Oct. 16. She was 94. In frail health for the past four years after the death of her husband, David Shuldiner, she was still able read more here »

BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Judith Edelman, a longtime Greenwich Village resident and prominent architect who led the effort to take down barriers to women in the profession, died Oct. 4 in her W. 12th St. home. She was 91. With her late husband, the architect Harold Edelman, she organized a partnership that designed public housing, read more here »

BY JEROME POYNTON | Anne Ardolino was a poet. She was also a former user of ancient illegal drugs, a former sex worker and an extraordinarily kind human being. Her life was memorialized at the Marble Cemetery, at 41 ½ Second Ave., on Sat., Oct. 11. Ardolino spent 30 years, give or take, walking the read more here »

Monsignor Nicola Marinacci, of the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, died on the evening of Sept. 13. He would have been 104 years old on Dec. 4. Marinacci was pastor of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral from 1970 to 1985. “The monsignor saved thousands of children in his lifetime, both in Italy during World War II and, read more here »

BY ALBERT AMATEAU | David Reck, a Hudson Square neighborhood resident and activist and a longtime member of Community Board 2, died earlier this summer. He was 64. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in fall 2013 and died this July 31, according to his wife, Eli Hausknecht. A registered architect, David Reck was a read more here »